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The entire point of the fediverse and Lemmy is that different instances and the communities within them can set things up as they see fit. And I think being so militantly against something simply because people on Reddit did it that way is silly. There's no reason to dismiss an idea simply because it was done that way on Reddit before. Just let Lemmy be its own thing without worrying about how Reddit does or doesn't do things.
The suggestion is based on the opinion that the content of posts on this community should be limited to objective information directly from/about what is being posted. Opinions, discussions, arguments, etc have their place in comments section, that way people can respond to those individual comments. Having the post itself be a combination of an article and a random musing from the OP means top level comments will be a mish-mash of responses to the article and responses to the OP's post body comment. By requiring the OP to post their comments in the comments section, we ensure that all top-level comments are responses to the linked article itself.
Nobody is saying they don't want OP to have an opinion or be able to comment, it's a simple suggestion to separate the OP's comments from the post body itself.
Right, so you've already agreed on the first two points.
I see some merit to the limiting top level comments to the article nobody reads anyway..., but expecting everyone to either go on a hate or love it comment parade feels like something that would naturally happen in the comments anyway.
I'd err to the side of already giving comments free fodder for discussion just to boost engagement. OP is essentially preempting what's already going to be a comment anyway. Hence my emphasis on is there some sort of social trick that leads credence to it? Or is that simply a failure on the readers part. It's the latter to me.
You're also expecting that multiple of the same comments at top level aren't already a thing lol. Or that OP isn't going to bring their argument to multiple levels anyway, which they will if they're active on their posts and not just top level spamming.